Now Watching

The plugin allows you to display the movies you’re watching, have watched recently and plan to watch, with cover art fetched automatically from Amazon. It also links to the Amazon page for the movie DVD and can ear you referral fees from Amazon.

With it, you can manage a library of your current movies, as well as historical and planned movies.

Installation

Upload ‘now-watching’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory

Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Make any changes the to provided template files and store them in your theme directory (see the “Template Files” section)

Frequently Asked Questions

Why does my library page look funny?

Now Watching comes with premade templates (‘/templates/’) that were originally made for the default Kubrick theme that comes with WordPress. If your theme has more or less markup, the templates may look strange in your theme.

My suggestion to those who are having trouble is to open up the respect Now Watching template (such as ‘library.php’) side-by-side with one of your standard theme templates, and make sure that the markup matches.

Changelog

1.1

Made it compatible with WordPress 3.0 so that movie info can be edited now

Fixed page titles when using permalinks

Allowed UTF-8 characters in widget title

1.0

First release forked from Now Reading Reloaded 5.1.1.0

Template Files

The ‘templates’ folder of the Now Watching plugin contains a default set of templates for displaying your movie data in various places (sidebar, library, etc.). Any changes you make to these templates should be in your own theme folder. Now Watching will first look inside your active theme folder for a directory called ‘now-watching’ for template files; if it doesn’t find them, it will use its own. Customized template should be stored in ‘/wp-content/yourtheme/now-watching/’ so that your changes are not overwritten when you upgrade.

Hi..I love Now Reading, and I’d love to use your plugin but I can only add movies and not edit them. I’ve reinstalled the plugin and tried everything. I even tried deleting the movies and it takes me to a blank screen. So to sum up…can load, not edit, not delete. Thanks Kris

Hi, could you please take a look at my homepage, http://filmantrop.no. I have both Now reading and Now watching in my sidebar. However, when I click on a movie to enter its page, the sidebar doesn’t get loaded correctly. Neither does the featured content from the main page. If you click on a book from the Now reading plugin everything gets loaded correctly. What can I do about this?

I have the same problem with the sidebar loading directly below the entries in the main page, and not the sidebar.
I’m using the suffusion theme and notice that Now Reading installs separate templates for suffusion in its theme directory.
Would really love to see the same for Now Watching, but then I’m not the poor bugger doing all the work 🙂

Thanks for the plugin, it’s excellent work! I’m planning on integrating it into my own site soon.

I’ve got a quick question about how you handle page titles however. I notice that page titles work fine in Now Watching, but the Now Reading plugin running on the same site won’t pass book titles through to WordPress.

I’m trying to fix this issue in Now Reading and was wondering if you had any pointers on the changes you made to Now Watching that fixed the page title issue?